Elon Exposes This Tesla Employee Who Leaked Confidential Data🤫

Name: Elon Exposes This Tesla Employee Who Leaked Confidential Data🤫
Uploaded: 2022-11-08T02:41:15+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In a brief interview, Elon Musk recounts how Tesla discovered an employee who repeatedly leaked confidential information to the media. The company sent a…

8 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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In a brief interview, Elon Musk recounts how Tesla discovered an employee who repeatedly leaked confidential information to the media. The company sent a lengthy email to every staff member, subtly altering the spacing (one or two spaces) in each copy to create a unique fingerprint for each recipient. By monitoring which version appeared in the leak, Tesla pinpointed the leaker instantly. After identification, the employee was asked to leave the company and pursue a career elsewhere. The story highlights a clever, low‑tech forensic technique and Musk’s decisive handling of internal security breaches.

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Somebody tweeted at Elon, they go, hey Elon, back in the day, somebody was leaking internal company data. They kept leaking it to news outlets. It was bad for business. And then you found them. Uh, I'm curious, how did you find them? And he goes, actually, it's an interesting story. We sent everybody in the company the same email, but with one slightly different space somewhere in the email. Between this period, we would either do two spaces or one space, but it was a long email. So we were able to create like a unique fingerprint for everybody in the company. We sent them all a slightly unique email that was like sort of like binary proof that this was your email that got out. And that was the best way to do it. And then they caught the person immediately, and he's like, "We asked them to pursue a career at another company."